South Dakota Review is committed to cultural and aesthetic diversity. First and foremost, we seek to publish exciting and compelling work that reflects the full spectrum of the contemporary literary arts.
Literary Magazines
Connect your poems, stories, essays, and reviews to the right audiences by researching over twelve hundred literary magazines in our database. Here, you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to direct your work to the publications most amenable to your vision.
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Reading Period: Sep 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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SoFloPoJo considers all genres of poetry. We especially like fairy tales, magic realism, haunting prose-poems, lyrical vignettes, crafted narratives. Send us your best work. We will begin to take essay submissions in January 2021.
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Our goal in putting TSR together is to create a literary journal filled with debut, emerging, and established authors; a literary journal that is inclusive of marginalized voices; a literary journal in which our readers will find themselves...
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The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University and is edited and managed by its graduate students and a faculty consulting editor...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Translation -
Southern Humanities Review publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Translations in all genres have also appeared in the journal. The journal recently established the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York, poet...
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Southern Indiana Review presents a cross-section of emerging and established artists and writers whose work is both regional and national in scope and degree of recognition.
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SPR reads submissions year-round and annually sponsors The Guy Owen Prize Contest. The result is a semi-annual literary publication showcasing poems by leading poets as well as those writers we think will become leading poets. We look...
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Established in 1951, the Southern Quill is the literary publication of Dixie State University. We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from residents of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Reading Period: Oct 12 to Mar 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our 1935 founding. The Southern Review...
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Celebrating over 100 years of publication and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review is the third oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. Selections from Southwest Review have been...
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We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary criticism, and book reviews. Generally speaking, we want material covering the Greater Southwest or material written by Southwestern writers. Est. 1971. We look for crisp language, an interesting...
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Southword is an international literary journal featuring poetry, literary fiction, essays, and interviews. Our Spring Issue consists of work drawn from our writing competitions and specially commissioned work. Our Autumn Issue consists of work...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 15Subgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Our purposes are to encourage and give voice to fine poets and artists; to move, delight, and humanize our readers; and to support fresh ways of writing, understanding, and using poetry.
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Poetry: We like poems that are comprehensible to most readers. We like to give each poem its own page, which also means the poem should be substantial enough to look good on a page.
Short fiction: 600-3,000 words.
Memoir: An...
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SPANK the CARP publishes unique, thought-provoking fiction and poetry that isn't obscure or pretentious. Its goal is to invite readers to wade into the stream, not make them afraid of water for fear it's too cold. We look for tight, pithy Flash...
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We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. We are committed to publishing work from under-represented voices, including people of color, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Feminist, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
Seeking micro stories and poetry from the speculative realm. Send prose or poetry at 66 words. No more, no less.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let me know ASAP if you accept publication elsewhere....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Micro-poetry, Poetry, Pop Culture -
Speculative City is a bi-annual magazine featuring literary works that explore themes, characters, and landscapes exclusive to urban environments and that highlight voices often unheard. Each magazine issue is relevant to the magazine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction -
A “speculative essay” concerns itself with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage. Thus we propose the lens of speculative nonfiction. With this journal we hope to begin a new dialogue about this...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Nonfiction -
Spilled Milk Magazine is an online literary magazine for fiction and nonfiction, poetry, art and photography. We are eager to publish work that surprises us—that disregards boundaries and borders. Spilled Milk strives to be a home from unheard...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry -
Split Lip Magazine is voice-driven literary magazine with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print annually.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Split Rock Review publishes innovative place-based and environmental poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic narratives, comics, and art. We also host an annual poetry chapbook contest and publish themed anthologies.
We only accept ...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing. This is a place for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive under pressure—for...
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We do not seek scholarly analyses or angst-driven diary entries; nor do we wish to be entertained by martians, demons, ghosts, or fairy godmothers. Those stories have a place, but it’s not here. Move, amaze, horrify and educate us about the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
